Works: Have feeling for it. You can look at work of art as it was meant to be seen, as an expression of a feeling, sensation- experience. Why are you reached emotionally. Taste it, do you like it or dislike it? Why do you like it? What turns you on emotionally? Anyone can describe, but what does it express?

The most common subject matter ever is mother and child, the essence of Christianity, Agape, giving love.

Pollock surprises. A comment on his work "infante de delas plais st mark pose sont em(s)" I finally understand why the picture of St. Mark ... there.

Irish: How do I know what I think if I don't say it? You must be true to emotion. Buddhists talk of Nirvana. Rothko painted black and then took his life.

The becoming of Gothic architecture: When building churches needed light, clerestories. St. Ambrose in Milan.

Abbot Serge, a very small man who came from where no one knows, but suddenly he was ruling a rich country well, without dishonesty. He constructed a church, St. Denis, now inside of Paris city limits.

Chartres is a culmination of effects.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartres_Cathedral) It was 'Cathedral School,' then, educating. Its structure imitated St. Denis. It was said that beneath laid the robe that Mary wore during the Annuciation. 1194 led a new church to be built, only the robe surving the fire. Serge based thinking on Platonic: We are led by faith, emotion, and only after we realize, scrutinize, understand. The best emotion to cultivate is to seek beauty, as the ultimate beauty is God, to simulate seeking of truth by sensual excitement. Reason prevents Theos. Medieval thinking backed this. Before others, the idea that first comes feeling then comes reasoning. All mystical knowledge is acquired this way. First comes inspiration, then comes expression of inspiration. By collecting stones, Serge though the expression would lead to God. Peter Abarlard first wanted to understand, but did not live this way as had great love with Eloise, a nun (see profound beautiful letter exchange). He led organized thinking, at Cathedral schools, leading straight to creation of Sorbonne, near after he died in 1070ish. Universities were similar to todays, but different. They were organized around four subjects theology, philosophy (everything that pertained to material knowledge), medicine, and law. Universities were often run by students, hiring students. SCholastic teaching was developed, 'shola' meaning knowledge that can be learned and transmitted through school, opposed to individual seeking of knowledge: St. Bernard's idea. St. Bernard tried to have Abelard ex-communicated for science above inspiration. Faith ought to be blind, otherwise it is knowledge. One of greatest teachers of philosophy was __ and then Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas came up with scholastic philosophy. He died at 49 years old. He remains head of eternal philosophy, derived from Aristotle, observation not Plato, ideas. It was poetic, poetry is intuition and the expression. Now it's knowledge first, Aquinas. What is point of proving love or existence of God, if you want to believe it. From Aquinas and Artistotle's point of view, nihil in intellecto, corno en sensu, nothing should be in intellect before it comes through the senses.

Romanesque architecture was almost brutal. Heavy. "If a Romaneqse Church should fall down, there'd be a lot of rubble, if a Gothic church little"
Paernovsky, art historian, wrote about Gothic scholasticism. Knowledge negated impulse, calmed Vikings. Viking doors with edges express something terrible. Matilde of Kenosa, an Italian, mediated between Pope and Holy Roman Emporer. Elanor of Aquitane was married to French king then Henry of England. She had three daughters and five sons, two sons became kings, including Richard the Lionhearted. She lived until over ninety. Cathedrals were houses of people, creating cities.

Ladies of the court were highly cultivated in the art, and the troubadours dedicated their lives to a certain woman and played all for the lady everywhere, perhaps never seeing her. Life was humanized with cities, all were cultivated. Courtship was courtly life, and elevated. "Marriage without love means love without marriage" An exquisite manner of relationship developed, a courting that lasted until recently. Louis the 14th built Versailles, ruled for 70 years, and took his hat off to any woman he saw anywhere. Women want to be protected. They need it. They need a strong protector for their children.

Chartres, the City of God is also the city of People. A fire didn't end the facade, thus built different tower. It doesn't matter that they don't macth. 20% of the stained glass is original. Statues at Chartres, Kings and queens of France, best works of 'art.' They are attached to a system. The expression of their faces are so benevolent, so 'agape,' pure, men can also experience this pacifity and expression, going forward. Content overwhelms form. If your heart is touched (unless you become like little children you will not enter kingdom of heaven" let yourself be possessed, let someone take you. Paul Claudere wrote poem to Mary, mother of god: mother of god, i am not coming to pray, i have nothing to offer, i have no demands, i am just coming to look at you to cry of happiness to know that i'm you're son and you love me. This distinguished diplomat writes like a child and then it counts. The best actor could not express as much as distorted love, which is why art needs to be distorted to a degree, why it shows more.

Paul Claudal:"He rejected his whole traditional literary education to take refuge in the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, and especially Arthur Rimbaud, who was to be a lifelong source of inspiration. Rimbaud, he wrote later, revealed the supernatural to him and was in part responsible for his return to the Catholic faith, which he had abandoned."

"What is not clear is not French"

Facade of Nortre Dame very rational, stained glass is sensual. Natural light comes into church, a manmade church filtered through the supernatural.

West usually Christ in judgement. On north, old testament, on south, new testament